INBRE: FURMAN U: FACULTY AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

INBRE：弗尔曼大学：教师和本科生研究发展

• 批准号: 7720397
• 负责人: JOHN WHEELER
• 金额: $ 37.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7720397
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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. In addition to the individual research programs of our Target Faculty, Furman University has three primary subprojects as defined by our specific aims in the INBRE proposal. SUBPROJECT 1: Infrastructure Development and Research Capacity An important aim of the Furman University INBRE program is the development of infrastructure and core facilities to provide suitable resources and an appropriate environment for the most efficient and effective research program Furman can achieve as a liberal arts institution. Construction is currently in progress on the $60 million Townes Center for Science, with 75,000 square feet of new teaching and research space scheduled to become available in the summer of 2007. Furman was able to add an LC-MS instrument with joint University/NIH-BRIN funding in 2002 that is now heavily used by target faculty members Dr. Petty and Dr. Goess, the PI (Dr. John Wheeler), and Dr. Greg Springsteen, a Furman matching faculty member (see SUBPROJECT 2). A second critical equipment need was access to a flow cytometer in the Biology Department. Partial funding for this instrument was provided in YEAR 1, and the resulting instrument is now enjoying significant use by target faculty members Dr. Hestermann and Dr. Turgeon as well as other biological research faculty. A third major equipment acquisition will be the purchase of a circular dichroism spectrometer in YEAR 3 using partial INBRE funds. This acquisition will bolster the research efforts of Dr. Petty and also a recent tenure-track addition to the Chemistry Department, Dr. Karen Buchmuller, who begins her research program in the fall of 2007. A final aim of our INBRE program in the context of expanding Furman's research capacity is to provide a full-time scientist to oversee the daily operation, maintenance, and training of our high-value analytical equipment used by both the target faculty and other research faculty. Using 50% matching monies, a full-time staff scientist (Dr. Sandra Wheeler) has been employed on an academic year contract to manage these analytical operations over the first two years of the award. This position was strategically established to provide support during the most critical part of the year, when faculty members are less available for the considerable tasks associated with instrumentation maintenance and oversight. Dr. Wheeler has also served to assist target faculty in establishing new measurement capacities in their individual research programs as discussed in Section VI. SUBPROJECT 2: Faculty Development and New Target Faculty Positions A primary aim all INBRE activities is to assist and promote the development of the target faculty to a point where they mature into established independent investigators, at a minimum at the R15 level and for some faculty ultimately at the R01 level. Four target faculty were initially selected for participation in YEAR 1 of the INBRE award (Grisel, Hestermann, Petty and Turgeon), and since that time three of those faculty have been successful in competing for and receiving NIH R15 awards (Petty and Hestermann  YEAR 1; Grisel  YEAR 2). The fourth target faculty member, Dr. Turgeon, currently has an R15 application (resubmission from YEAR 1) pending, and we anticipate receiving her priority score within the next two months. As an additional part of its faculty development aims in the original proposal, Furman planned for an expansion position in the Psychology Department in the area of behavioral medicine in YEAR 2. The departure of one of our original target faculty (Dr. Moses Lee) prior to award made possible the addition of a second new target faculty member in the Chemistry Department in YEAR 2. The expansion position in behavioral medicine has been filled by Dr. Cinnamon Stetler (July 2006), and the replacement position in chemistry has been filled by Dr. Brian Goess (July 2006). The research plans and progress-to-date of these two new tenure-track additions is outlined in Section II of this report. In addition to the NIH-supported target faculty, Furman has made significant commitments to the development of other biomedical research faculty by establishing Furman INBRE Matching Fellowships. These pilot grants, awarded each summer to biomedical faculty showing promise of nationally competitive research activity, carry a summer stipend ($12,918), support for an undergraduate research student ($3,500) and a supplies budget ($3,000) to provide resources sufficient to help potential investigators obtain appropriate preliminary data for the submission of competitive NIH (or equivalent) research proposals. The two full INBRE matching awards from YEAR 1 each resulted in the submission of NIH grant proposals as noted in Section VI. Two awards were likewise made in YEAR 2 to junior faculty with similarly promising results as described in Section VI, and a call for proposals has been issued for a third year of matching fellowships for YEAR 3, with applications due in late February 2007. Finally, within the aim of the overall growth of our biomedical research faculty, Furman is committed to making significant efforts toward improving the distribution of underrepresented minorities among its faculty. An additional expansion position in neuroscience was added in July 2006, filled by Dr. Onarae Rice. Dr. Rice is a behavioral pharmacologist, and we anticipate he will substantively impact our effectiveness in attracting and retaining underrepresented student populations in the sciences in general and the rapidly emerging discipline of neuroscience in particular. SUBPROJECT 3: Student Development and Support Central to the overall aims of the South Carolina INBRE program is the development of a pipeline of promising new talent to carry forward the competitive research programs catalyzed by the INBRE funds. In YEAR 1, eleven undergraduate research students (7 women, 3 minority) were funded with NIH-INBRE resources to conduct full-time summer research with Furman target faculty. One additional minority student was funded from University INBRE matching funds to work with the Project Director, and two students (both women) were funded to work with each of two additional INBRE matching faculty (see SUBPROJECT 2). In YEAR 2, Furman was able to plan for the summer program more efficiently as a result of the additional lead time provided by the already-established award, and as a result the training of young scientists and involvement of students from underrepresented populations was even more successful than in the prior year. Given Furman's overall institutional demographics (approximately 12% minority enrollment institution-wide), a significant focus of the student training effort includes the participation of our target faculty in reaching out to faculty and students at each of South Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to promote active participation in our research programs. Students who apply to the summer program from off-campus are provided with a full 10-week summer research stipend ($3,500) and also with housing in on-campus furnished apartments provided by Furman matching funds.

该副本是利用众多研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子弹和 调查员（PI）可能已经从其他NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此，可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 对于中心，这不一定是调查员的机构。 除了我们的目标教师的个别研究计划外，弗曼大学还具有三个主要的次要标题，这是我们在差价提案中的具体目标所定义的。 第1次主题：基础设施的发展和研究能力 Furman University Inbre计划的一个重要目的是开发基础设施和核心设施，以为Furman作为一家文科机构提供适当的资源和适当的环境，为最有效的研究计划提供适当的环境。 目前，在耗资6000万美元的科学中心正在进行建设，计划于2007年夏季提供75,000平方英尺的新教学和研究空间。Furman能够与联合大学/NIH-添加LC-MS乐器2002年的Brin资金现在已被目标教师Petty博士和Goess博士，PI（John Wheeler博士）和Greg Springsteen博士大量使用，这是Furman匹配的教职员工（请参阅Subproject 2）。 第二个关键设备的需求是访问生物学系的流式细胞仪。 该工具的部分资金是在第1年提供的，而由此产生的工具现在正在享受目标教职员工Hestermann博士和Turgeon博士以及其他生物学研究学院的大量使用。 第三个主要设备采集将是使用部分近亲基金在第3年购买圆形二科主义光谱仪。 此次收购将加强Petty博士的研究工作，以及最近对化学部门的终身任期，Karen Buchmuller博士，他于2007年秋季开始了她的研究计划。我们的Inbre计划的最终目标是扩大Furman的研究能力的是为了监督目标教师和其他研究学院使用的高价值分析设备的日常运营，维护和培训。 在奖项的前两年中，使用了50％的匹配款项，一名专职员工科学家（Sandra Wheeler博士）被聘用在学年合同中管理这些分析业务。 在一年中最关键的部分中，当教职员工较少用于与仪器维护和监督相关的大量任务时，该职位是在战略上建立的。 惠勒博士还曾协助目标教师在其个人研究计划中建立新的测量能力，如第六节所述。 第2次主题：教师发展和新的目标教师职位 一个主要目的的近亲活动是协助和促进目标教职员工的发展，以使他们成熟成为已建立的独立研究人员，至少在R15级别和最终在R01级别的某些教职员工。 最初选择了四个目标教师参加INBRE奖（Grisel，Hestermann，Petty和Turgeon）的第一年，从那时起，其中三名教职员工就成功争夺并获得NIH R15奖项（Petty和Hestermann年1; 第四位目标教师Turgeon博士目前有R15申请（从1年级开始），我们预计未来两个月内将获得她的优先分数。 作为其教师发展的另一部分，旨在在原始提案中，Furman计划在第2年的行为医学领域的心理学部门扩展职位。授予奖项使得在第2年增加了化学系的第二个新目标教职员工。行为医学的扩张位置已由Cinnamon Stetler博士（2006年7月）填补，化学中的替代立场已由Brian Goess博士（2006年7月）。 本报告的第二部分概述了这两个新的终身轨道增加的研究计划和进度。 除了由NIH支持的目标学院外，Furman还通过建立Furman Inbre Inbre匹配奖学金来对其他生物医学研究学院的发展做出了重大承诺。这些飞行员​​补助金每年夏天授予生物医学教师，以表明对全国竞争性研究活动的承诺，携带夏季津贴（12,918美元），支持本科生研究生（3,500美元）和供应预算（3,000美元），以帮助潜在的资源提供足够的资源，以帮助潜在的调查员提供资源获得适当的初步数据，以提交竞争性NIH（或同等）研究建议。 第1年的两个完整近亲匹配奖项导致了第六节中指出的NIH赠款提案。 同样在第2年级的第2年级颁发了两个奖项，如第六节所述，同样有希望的结果，并且已经发布了第三年级的第三年奖学金，并于2007年2月下旬申请申请。最后，申请。在我们生物医学研究学院的整体增长的目的中，Furman致力于为改善代表性不足的少数群体在其教师中的分配而做出巨大的努力。 2006年7月，由Onarae Rice博士填补了神经科学的额外扩展位置。 赖斯博士是一名行为药理学家，我们预计他将实质上影响我们在一般的科学和尤其是神经科学的迅速新兴学科中吸引和保留代表性不足的学生人数方面的有效性。 第3次主题：学生发展和支持 南卡罗来纳州INBRE计划总体目标的核心是开发有望实现新人才的渠道，以推进近亲基金催化的竞争性研究计划。 在第1年，为十一名本科研究专业的学生（7名女性，3名少数族裔）提供了NIH INBRE资源，以与Furman Target教师进行全日制夏季研究。 另外一名少数族裔学生获得了与项目主管合作的近亲匹配资金的资助，两名学生（两个妇女）被资助与另外两个近亲相匹配的教职员工一起工作（请参阅第2次小子2）。 在第二年，由于已经建立的奖项提供了额外的交货时间，Furman能够更有效地为夏季计划计划，因此，对年轻科学家的培训和来自代表性不足的学生的参与甚至更多的是更多成功比去年。 鉴于Furman的整体机构人口统计学（大约12％的少数族裔入学机构），学生培训工作的重点包括我们目标教师参与与南卡罗来纳州历史上每一个的教师和学生接触的人（HBCUS） ）促进积极参与我们的研究计划。 向校外申请夏季计划的学生提供了整整10周的夏季研究津贴（3,500美元），并提供由Furman匹配资金提供的校园内家具的住房。